Soil Geomorphology

By: J. Gerrard

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Hardcover | 8 October 1992

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Soil formation is related to the nature of landforms on which that formation takes place. The nature of the soil affects some of the processes shaping the landforms and which cause landscape change. An accurate assessment of the evolution of landforms and of the patterns of soil formation is possible only if the interdependence of soils and landforms is recognized. This book provides an integration of geomorphology and pedology to fully assess this relationship. After an opening chapter outlining the approach adopted, specific chapters examine the relationships between soil formation and specific suites of landform assemblages. The highly influential catena concept is followed by an analysis of soil within drainage basins, on erosion surfaces, flood plains, river terraces, coastal plains, glacial and fluvioglacial landforms, deserts and periglacial landforms. The concluding chapter addresses the way in which soils can be used to assess major phases in landscape evolution. Undergraduate students and lecturers in geography or soil sciences will find this a valuable interdisciplinary introduction to soil geomorphology.

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Acknowledgements
Preface
Soil geomorphology - the approach	p. 1
Geomorphology and models of soil formation	p. 3
Chronosequences	p. 5
Soil and landscape patterns	p. 7
Soils and slope processes	p. 8
Soil landscape systems	p. 10
Soils and landscapes as open systems	p. 10
Types of systems	p. 11
Energy status of soil systems	p. 12
Soil - landscape systems	p. 14
Denudational balance	p. 15
Instability in soil geomorphic systems	p. 16
Two-dimensional soil - landscape systems	p. 17
Three-dimensional soil - landscape systems	p. 25
The catena concept	p. 29
Formulation of the concept	p. 29
The catena and the processes of erosion	p. 29
Catenary differentiation	p. 30
Aufbereitung concept	p. 33
Derivation and wash slopes	p. 34
Soil changes within catenas	p. 35
Catenas on sites of geological diversity	p. 38
Catenas and time	p. 41
Catenas in different climates	p. 41
Soil relationships within drainage basins	p. 51
Theoretical considerations	p. 51
Drainage basins as pedogeomorphic units	p. 55
Relationships between slope angle and soil properties	p. 56
Effect of slope position	p. 59
Soil - slope relationships within drainage basins	p. 62
Soils on erosion surfaces	p. 71
Age and status of erosion surfaces	p. 73
Soil development and the formation of erosion surfaces	p. 74
Pedological relationships	p. 75
Duricrusts and topography	p. 78
Soils on stepped erosion surfaces	p. 81
Soils on floodplains	p. 90
Characteristics of alluvial environments	p. 90
Sedimentary and pedologic characteristics	p. 93
Waterlogging and the effects of flooding	p. 95
Floodplain landforms	p. 98
Texture of the materials	p. 103
Classification of alluvial soils	p. 105
Chemical composition and clay minerals	p. 109
Soils on river terraces and alluvial fans	p. 111
River terraces	p. 111
Chronological studies	p. 113
Soils of river terraces	p. 114
Alluvial fans	p. 122
Soils of coastal plains and sand dunes	p. 125
Materials in coastal systems	p. 125
Coastal landform systems	p. 126
Soil formation and salt-marsh development	p. 128
Decalcification of marine soils	p. 130
Soil - landform relationships	p. 131
Soils of coastal sand-dune systems	p. 135
Soils on glacial and fluvioglacial landforms	p. 140
Glacial and fluvioglacial deposits	p. 141
Landscapes of glacial and fluvioglacial deposition	p. 142
Soils on end moraines	p. 143
Soils on ice disintegration features	p. 148
Gumbotil and accretion gley	p. 151
Soils and desert landforms	p. 155
Desert landforms	p. 156
Desert soil formation	p. 156
Basin and range, southern New Mexico	p. 165
Soil characteristics	p. 168
Soil - landform relationships	p. 171
Soils and periglacial landforms	p. 180
The periglacial environment	p. 181
Permafrost	p. 183
Soil types	p. 184
Micromorphology of soils in periglacial environments	p. 187
Landform-soil assemblages	p. 190
Patterned ground	p. 192
Soils and landscape change	p. 200
General principles	p. 200
Types and relationships of palaeosols	p. 203
Identification of buried soils	p. 207
Problems of environmental reconstruction	p. 209
Weathering indices	p. 211
Radiocarbon dating	p. 213
Pollen analysis	p. 214
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Index	p. 265
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